If you can’t bring yourself to condemn someone who drugged and anally raped a 13 year-old girl, you are part of the problem.

Moreover, if you want to know how Hollywood feels about sex with children, you can start by watching their films.

Fox News:

If a spate of recent allegations proves true, Hollywood may have a hideous epidemic on its hands. The past two weeks have brought three separate reports of alleged child sexual abuse in the entertainment industry.

Martin Weiss, a 47-year-old Hollywood manager who represented child actors, was charged in Los Angeles on Dec. 1 with sexually abusing a former client. His accuser, who was under 12 years old during the time of the alleged abuse, reported to authorities that Weiss told him “what they were doing was common practice in the entertainment industry.” Weiss has pleaded not guilty.

On Nov. 21, Fernando Rivas, 59, an award-winning composer for “Sesame Street,” was arraigned on charges of coercing a child “to engage in sexually explicit conduct” in South Carolina. The Juilliard-trained composer was also charged with production and distribution of child pornography.

Registered sex offender Jason James Murphy, 35, worked as a casting agent in Hollywood for years before his past kidnapping and sexual abuse of a boy was revealed by the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 17. Murphy’s credits include placing young actors in kid-friendly fare like “Bad News Bears,” “The School of Rock,” “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” and the forthcoming “Three Stooges.”

Revelations of this sort come as no surprise to former child star Corey Feldman.

Feldman, 40, himself a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, unflinchingly warned of the world of pedophiles who are drawn to the entertainment industry last August. “I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia,” Feldman told ABC’s Nightline. “That’s the biggest problem for children in this industry… It’s the big secret.”

Another child star from an earlier era agrees that Hollywood has long had a problem with pedophilia. “When I watched that interview, a whole series of names and faces from my history went zooming through my head,” Paul Peterson, 66, star of The Donna Reed Show, a sitcom popular in the 1950s and 60s, and president of A Minor Consideration, tells FOXNews.com. “Some of these people, who I know very well, are still in the game.”

“This has been going on for a very long time,” concurs former “Little House on the Prairie” star Alison Arngrim. “It was the gossip back in the ‘80s. People said, ‘Oh yeah, the Coreys, everyone’s had them.’ People talked about it like it was not a big deal.”

Arngrim, 49, was referring to Feldman and his co-star in “The Lost Boys,” Corey Haim, who died in March 2010 after years of drug abuse.

“I literally heard that they were ‘passed around,’” Arngrim said. “The word was that they were given drugs and being used for sex. It was awful – these were kids, they weren’t 18 yet. There were all sorts of stories about everyone from their, quote, ‘set guardians’ on down that these two had been sexually abused and were totally being corrupted in every possible way.”

Full story here.

ABC News:

Roman Polanski makes his first public acknowledgement about Samantha Geimer, the 13-year-old model he sexually assaulted in Los Angeles, in a documentary on his life that premiered Tuesday at the Zurich Film Festival.

“She is a double victim: my victim, and a victim of the press,” Polanski says of Geimer in Laurent Bouzereau’s “Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir.” Polanski took to the stage at the Zurich Film Festival Tuesday to accept a lifetime achievement award two years after he was originally intended to receive it, as he was arrested and incarcerated in a Zurich prison at the request of U.S. authorities when he arrived to receive the honor in 2009.

Here’s Samantha Geimer, the woman Polanski raped when she was 13, on GMA today, “He didn’t mean to hurt me.”:

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We should all be relieved Geimer has a sense of closure with respect to the crime Polanski committed against her. But Polanski also committed a crime against society. But because Polanski’s a wealthy celebrity with powerful friends, he’s been able to escape justice for decades now. Furthermore, it doesn’t matter how poorly the system treated him or even that his victim has accepted his apology. In the real world outside of child raping-excusing Hollywood, you do the crime, you go through the system and if the system is unjust in some way, there are other parts of the system to remedy that.

If you fix cars for a living or clean hotel rooms, those are your options. But if you’re one of the Beautiful People, you flee to lavish resorts, continue to work with A-listers, and are greeted like some kind of folk hero from the planet Child Molester.

Want to know what would end the media storm that gives Ms. Geimer (understandably) so much stress and anxiety? If people would stop making movies in defense of Polanski, if Polanski would go into seclusion and stop participating in those movies, and if film festivals would stop honoring Polanski.

Isn’t it amazing how the very same people who attack the media for giving Geimer so much grief are also the ones who constantly feed the media. And by participating in this documentary, isn’t Polanski doing just that?

Better yet, nothing would end the talk about this crime faster than if Polanski would turn himself in and pay his debt to society. Once he did so, once he was no longer a fugitive, we could all move on.

The only people keeping this story alive are Polanski and his defenders. 

The Telegraph:

Kate Winslet praised the “great” Roman Polanski as she promoted the first film he has made since being released from house arrest.

Polanski remains a fugitive from US justice after fleeing the country in 1978, having pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.

However, Winslet had no qualms about the director’s history and jumped at the chance to appear in Carnage, a drama which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

“When Roman Polanski invites you to join him in any project you really don’t say no,” she said. “I felt extremely fortunate to be included.”

She admitted to feeling nervous about meeting Polanski on set, but only because she was over-awed by his film-making.

Recalling her first day on set with co-stars Jodie Foster, John C Reilly and Christoph Waltz, Winslet said: “We were working with the great Roman Polanski. We are only human beings and we are still perfectly capable of being terrified, whoever we are.”

The other cast members were equally effusive about the director, who stayed away from the press conference.

“When Roman Polanski calls you, after you’ve picked yourself up off the floor, you say yes,” said Reilly, while Waltz said: “I love Roman Polanski and I really learned to admire him.”

In 1977 Polanski plied 13-year-old Samantha Geimer with champagne and drugs before raping her at the home of his friend, Jack Nicholson.

There’s something so wrong with some people, it defies explanation.

What’s the magic number of victims before you withdraw your support?

This might surprise you, but to we unsophisticated types — no matter how awesome Chinatown was – one is enough; a guilty plea followed by a flight from justice is enough. But because you’re sophisticated, we have to ask.

For the record, if you care, if you’re bothering to keep track, the number is now three:

Another woman has come forward charging that Roman Polanski raped her in 1974, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

The woman, who was 21 at the time, reported the alleged sexual assault to the Los Angeles District Attorney in May and was interviewed by authorities.

Edith Michelle Vogelhut, a former model also known as Shelli Paul, told authorities Polanski “handcuffed” her at actor Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood house where he was staying, then sodomized her repeatedly, before he passed out, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

Polanski’s already gearing up his next film project, “God of Carnage,” and over at the L.A. Times the Culture Monster’s giddy and grooving and without a hint of irony launching a fan-boy poll over who the child rapist should cast.  

Good.

This story has never been about Polanski. He’s a lost cause, as evil as evil can be. This story has always been about Hollywood; about the indecency and depravity of those willing to enable and champion this evil. 

Another Polanski film is just another opportunity for us to learn who they are.

One week ago today, on Monday, July 12 we learned that Switzerland would not extradite director Roman Polanski back to the United States to face sentencing for a crime he has already pleaded guilty to – having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year old girl after he drugged her in 1977.

Most Americans know the story.

The Oscar winning director of “Chinatown,” “The Pianist,” and “Rosemary’s Baby,” was accused of luring the girl to Jack Nicholson’s house while the actor was out of town under the guide of having a modeling shoot with the child. Once the girl arrived, Polanski allegedly gave her champagne and part of a Quaalude, and then had sexual intercourse with her.

Some Americans have argued that the crime happened so long ago that prosecutors should simply move on.

Actress Whoopi Goldberg once insinuated what Polanski did may not fit the legal definition of rape in some countries – which actually turned out to be inaccurate.

Others have suggested that because Polanski’s mother was killed in a Nazi concentration camp and his wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson’s cult he should be shown compassion.

All of those people are wrong though.

What Roman Polanski did was a cruel, disturbing, selfish act that tormented the life of a young girl and has haunted her throughout her womanhood.

A possible victim of Stockholm Syndrome or perhaps just emotionally exhausted, the victim herself has recently withdrawn her long standing adamant requests to see Polanski sentenced, and now says she just wants the case to go away so she can put it behind her.

Certainly, she deserves compassion and respect. But if we put this case behind us without seeing justice done then it’s only a sending a message to other sexual predators, celebrities and wealthy people who commit crimes that justice delayed is justice denied.

For decades the Swiss have helped people evade justice under the pretense they are neutral. They are not neutral.

They illegally shielded money the Nazis stole from the Jews during the Holocaust. It is widely known they help people who hide money they’ve stolen from fraudulent transactions, and in this case, they are an accessory after the fact in helping Polanski evade justice for raping a child.

Switzerland is evil.

Their policies of so-called neutrality are evil and they are cowardly. I can’t think of anything more cowardly than hiding behind the guise of neutrality when a crime has been committed against an innocent person or people. There is no gray. There is good and there is evil. It is in fact black and white.

As a former prosecutor who now selectively practices criminal defense, I often hear other criminal defense lawyers justify their actions when they represent defendants who are guilty of violent crimes – something I won’t do. They say that they do it for the system, that everyone deserves a good defense and that they’re not the ones who committed the crime.

But anyone with a moral conscience knows those are all pathetic excuses. Anytime anyone uses their own power to shield evil – or refuses to use the power they have to stop it, they are committing an act of evil themselves.

When someone makes an innocent person suffer they deserve to suffer themselves through the civil system of justice we have created. Without consequences, a message is sent to the perpetrator and other would-be perpetrators that it’s okay to hurt someone again.

Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand once wrote that, “Whenever good and evil compromise, evil always wins.” She was right. In this case, Switzerland has compromised their morality and responsibility to the global community to extradite a convicted child rapist.

Evil has won.

CNN:

Martin Scorsese has “‘demanded the immediate release’ of fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland on a U.S. arrest warrant related to a 1977 child sex charge.”

The Smoking Gun [EXPLICIT content warning]:

The teenager’s troubling [Ed. Note: she was 13] –and contemporaneous–account of her abuse at Polanski’s hands begins with her posing twice for topless photos that the director said were for French Vogue. The girl then told prosecutors how Polanski directed her to, “Take off your underwear” and enter the Jacuzzi, where he photographed her naked. Soon, the director, who was then 43, joined her in the hot tub. He also wasn’t wearing any clothes and, according to Gailey’s testimony, wrapped his hands around the child’s waist.

The girl testified that she left the Jacuzzi and entered a bedroom in Nicholson’s home, where Polanski sat down beside her and kissed the teen, despite her demands that he “keep away.” According to Gailey, Polanski then performed a sex act on her and later “started to have intercourse with me.” At one point, according to Gailey’s testimony, Polanski asked the 13-year-old if she was “on the pill,” and “When did you last have your period?” Polanski then asked her, Gailey recalled, “Would you want me to go in through your back?” before he “put his penis in my butt.” Asked why she did not more forcefully resist Polanski, the teenager told Deputy D.A. Roger Gunson, “Because I was afraid of him.”

In a year end list of the “25 Lamest of 2009,” what the left-wing film site Cinematical obviously sees as the persecution of Roman Polanski ranks at #2, with this mind-boggling rationalization:

Though he’s already spent time in jail, as well as a number of years living with that one act of bad judgment, apparently law enforcement doesn’t have anything better to do with their time than to chase an accused sex offender whose victim doesn’t even want him to be in trouble. I wonder, if the roles were reversed and it was some famous actress in this position — would we still care about this case all these years later, or would college boys have the actress’ poster hanging in their dorm rooms?

“One act of bad judgment.”

“Accused sex offender.”

 Accused…? Are they talking about the same Polanski who plead guilty? Facts mean nothing to these people, and I think a better question might be:

What would Cinematical’s reaction have been if that was their daughter?

What would Cinematical’s reaction have been if Polanski shared Charlton Heston’s politics?

What would Cinematical’s reaction have been if Polanski were a televangelist?

But this is the question you have to ask yourself: If these Hollywood Leftists can’t feel or even fake outrage towards a man who drugged, raped, and sodomized a 13 year-old girl and then fled from justice after agreeing to a guilty plea … what will outrage them?

They not only won’t fake outrage, they put their snark on and crack jokes as though somewhere in the real world a woman who drugged and raped a 13 year-old boy would be some sort of dorm-room icon. Again, facts mean nothing to these people. We’ve seen at least a half-dozen attractive young female school teachers caught having sexual relationships with their students — consensual relationships not involving drugs with most of the victims being older than 13 – and not only have those teachers been held accountable for their actions, they’ve become no one’s cause celebre’.  

These are who these people are; these are the people who not only control the most powerful propaganda machine every devised by man, these are the people charged with the responsibility of reporting and covering that device.

These people are so far gone, so depraved, so sophisticated that simply because you play their game, swing in their circles and make “great” art, you can drug and anally rape … anyone.

How young would Polanski’s victim have to be to wipe that superior snark off Cinematical’s face? 12? 11? 10? 3? 1? At what age is what Polanski did not okay?

The worst people in the world are not in prison. Even convicts won’t abide a child rapist.

Jeff Norman’s HuffPo article officially allows us to add to a growing list we like to call:

Think How Much Better the World Be If the Left Was…

…as outraged by communism as they are by anti-communists.

…as outraged by terrorism as they are by what the U.S. does to prevent it.

And now:

…as outraged by a fugitive child rapist as they are by his critics.

Take it away Jeff Norman:

Demonstrating the same lack of self-esteem as prisoners who beat up child molesters, noisy segments of the American population continue to hyperventilate over Roman Polanski as if the sexual abuse of minors were not already sufficiently condemned by our society. …

I’m confused… Is anyone else confused? Obviously Norman sees some sort of invisible line where condemnation of those who drug and sodomize 13 year-old girls moves from “sufficient” to demonstrating a “lack of self-esteem.” And as someone always concerned with being caught in the act of demonstrating a lack of self-esteem, maybe Norman could let me know when I’ve crossed that line … fire off a flare, or something.    

The offense for which Polanski’s extradition from Switzerland is sought is barely considered a crime in Europe, where the age of consent is as low as 13. …

You would think  Norman might stop for a moment and ponder over the word “consent,” but you would be wrong.

Regardless of how one feels about Polanski or his confessed/alleged crimes, guilt or innocence should be determined by actual evidence, not mere perception. …

Regardless of how one feels? Maybe I’m not sophisticated enough to understand that. Anyway…

Silly question, I know, but might guilt be determined by Polanski’s … guilty plea?

Just because a lot of pathetic people need to dwell on the director’s supposed indecency to make themselves feel decent in comparison[.]

This is how far gone these people are. Even though we’re talking about a 13 year-old child, Norman cannot bring himself to use the word “indecency” without first qualifying it with the word “supposed.”

On the other hand, those of us outraged by Polanski’s crimes are “pathetic.” No qualifier there.

You have to love when the left chooses to claim moral high ground. In their delusional world making America less safe by closing Gitmo is morally superior to not; abandoning 25 million Iraqis to death squads and terrorists is morally superior to protecting them; and trashing those outraged by child rape is morally superior to being outraged by child rape.

Looks as though fugitive director Roman Polanski has been receiving all kinds of support from those who believe being a “genius director” means never having to say you’re sorry. Not even for drugging and anally raping a thirteen year-old girl and then fleeing from justice: 

My dear Bernard-Henri Lévy, what you have said in the Swiss press is true — I have been overwhelmed by the number of messages of support and sympathy I have received in Winterthur prison, and that I continue to receive here, in my chalet in Gstaad, where I am spending the holidays with my wife and my children.

These messages have come from my neighbors, from people all over Switzerland, and from beyond Switzerland — from across the world. I would like every one of them to know how heartening it is, when one is locked up in a cell, to hear this murmur of human voices and of solidarity in the morning mail. In the darkest moments, each of their notes has been a source of comfort and hope, and they continue to be so in my current situation.

Read the full letter here.

Bless the vast majority of HuffPo commenters who are having none of it:

• disagree. He isn’t even that great of an artist. It’s because he’s famous. That trumps all. It’s disgraceful. And typical.
• How brave, how kind, how generous of you Monsieur Levy to pass along to the Huffington Post readers this note from your good friend Monsieur Polanski.  Our hearts bleed for Monsieur Polanski.
• Rape is rape. (Rape-rape is also rape.)
• I don’t read one bit of contrition, no public apology to the girl he raped. The pack is not going to be quiet until the felon has paid his debt to society.

How unsophisticated of them.

The Wrap believes Polanski is thisclose to getting off  scot-free with time served.

In celebucrat homes everywhere there will be more than tofu turkey stuffed with cocaine this Thanksgiving, there will be rejoicing…

A Swiss court granted Roman Polanski bail on Wednesday, accepting $4.5 million to allow him to remain under house arrest at his chalet. The director will stay in prison for up to 10 days while the Swiss government decides whether to appeal.

The Swiss Criminal Court reversed its previous rejection of bail, saying it was confident the large cash guarantee would compel Polanski to remain at his chalet in the Swiss resort of Gstaad under house arrest and monitored by an electronic bracelet.

The good news is that the man who drugged and anally raped a thirteen year old girl is still in jail. Let’s hope the Swiss Justice Ministry does appeal and does prevail….

Call it a hunch, but for some reason my gut says Polanski might be a flight risk.